Things That Make Ya Go Hmmmmmm.

A.M. drive time radio talk, Quinn, in the warroom. Caller says U of Pittsburgh's campus paper says five elevators stopped in four buildings one day earlier this week trapping people inside. Didn't say for how long or give other info.

Security guard at work twisted his knee last week, was scheduled for an MRI this morning. Last night the hospital cut their power to do a test of the generators and this morning the MRI is kaput. They were waiting for an engineer from the MRI company to come and take a look.

Everything makes a good doomer go hmmmmmmm... and legitimately so,
since a failure is a failure, but it's the POSSIBLE date-related
CAUSES of failures that make otherwise routine disruptions
potential "evidence" for us in further corroborating our unshakable
Y2K convictions. Take this for example: I wanted to order a propane
appliance out of Arizona; ordered it earlier this month. Dealer
called back to say sorry but the appliance made in South Africa, was
snaggled in freight cargo difficulties out of ports in SA. He said,
maybe you could get it by mid-November. He called back a week later
to say nope ... not until December at the earliest. I cancelled the
order, since that is too close to D-Day and no doubt leaves me
subject to other dealys. Ordered another unit he had in his
warehouse, and that too has been subject to delays in transit -- from
Arizona to Oregon!! becuase "they're compute is down" and they can;t
track the shipment. O K. E V E R Y T H I N G I S N O R M A L .

Or take this example: I have a friend who works for major catalogue
retailer -- ver y upscale, pish-posh sort of merchandiser. I check
in with her once or twice a week, and the word is always that the
computers on which she logs orders and billings are FUBAR too -- they
are constantly double-billing, misbilling, and sending out duplicate
orders. Hey no big deal, right? Except that it hasn't happened
before. It's either Y2K or their Y2K fix. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Well, you hear enough of these stories and you just go hmmmmmmmm.

To me it's more than what works and what doesn't. It's what the
people are doing. A lot of people talk about the problems that
happen all the time and the way they are dealt with on a routine
basis. What we are seeing now is things people do that are not the
normal routine and the consequences of these actions. When the end
of the year gets here, there will be lots of things happening that
are out of the normal and people will also be doing things out of the
norm. These events we are seeing now is just evidence that when
people step outside their norm (which now is at least partially of
their own doing), things misbehave. When forced outside the norm and
and people start reacting under pressure, things will get real
interesting real fast.

All you have to do is pay attention. Things are beginning to melt
down. And it's going to start being more and more noticable as the
weeks go by. Pretty soon, hardly anything is going to work correctly
for more than 2 hours at a time.

What's this mean for us? That we're all going to have to get used to
a world that's a like Microsoft's Windows Program: "IT'S GOOD
ENOUGH...and NO BETTER."

Couldn't make an appointment at my Doctor's for February/March of next
year. It seems that their appointment system won't work then... Yeah,
a lot of stuff is starting to fail. Will it hit critical mass?